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CurtMonash on July 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks

His history is wrong. OO won in large part for a good reason -- it was a way of implementing, if not enforcing, modularity. One that people accepted, unlike LISP.

artsrc on July 16, 2012 [–]

I like modules that are more like objects. I would like to supply parameters to their constructors and be able to refer to them via names.

Languages without modules, like JavaScript, support that kind of thing.

http://wadler.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/objects-as-modules-in-...

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